All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
AGNES MARTINI think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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